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HB391 - AN ACT relating to civil rights.
Keturah Herron, Lisa Willner, Chad Aull
Last updated 8 months ago
18 Co-Sponsors
Repeal and reenact KRS 344.010 to define various terms; amend KRS 344.020, relating to the purpose of the Kentucky's civil rights chapter, to prohibit discrimination on the basis of sexual orientation or gender identity; amend KRS 344.025, 344.040, 344.050, 344.060, 344.070, and 344.080, relating to prohibited discrimination in various labor and employment practices, to include discrimination on the basis of sexual orientation or gender identity; amend KRS 344.100 and 344.110 to conform; amend KRS 344.120 and 342.140, relating to prohibited discrimination in places of public accommodation and advertisements therefor, to include discrimination on the basis of sexual orientation or gender identity; amend KRS 344.170, 344.180, 344.190, 344.300, and 344.310, relating to the state and local human rights commissions, to include prohibition of discrimination on the basis of sexual orientation or gender identity in the scope of their powers and duties; amend KRS 344.360, 344.370, 344.380, and 344.680, relating to prohibited discrimination in certain housing, real estate, and other financial transactions, to include discrimination on the basis of sexual orientation or gender identity; amend KRS 344.367, relating to prohibited discrimination in certain insurance sales, to include discrimination on the basis of sexual orientation or gender identity; amend KRS 344.400, relating to prohibited discrimination in certain credit transactions, to include discrimination on the basis of sexual orientation or gender identity; make various technical amendments; amend KRS 18A.095 to conform.
STATUS
Introduced
HB290 - AN ACT relating to coverage for substance use disorder.
Josie Raymond, George A. Brown, Tina Bojanowski
Last updated 8 months ago
6 Co-Sponsors
Create a new section of Subtitle 17A of KRS Chapter 304 to require certain health insurance policies, plans, certificates, and contracts to provide coverage for comprehensive supervised substance use disorder treatment; create a new section of Subtitle 17C of KRS Chapter 304 and amend KRS 164.2871 and 18A.225 to require limited health service benefit plans, the state employee health plan, and state postsecondary institution self-insured employer group health plans to comply with the coverage requirement; apply provisions to policies, plans, certificates, and contracts issued or renewed on or after January 1, 2025; provide that the Act may be cited as Braxton's Law; EFFECTIVE January 1, 2025.
STATUS
Introduced
HR61 - A RESOLUTION recognizing the last day of February, the day connecting Black and Women's History Months, as a day to honor Black women.
Pamela D. Stevenson, Keturah Herron, Chad Aull
Last updated 7 months ago
6 Co-Sponsors
Recognize the last day of February, the day connecting Black and Women's History Months, as a day to honor Black women.
STATUS
Passed
HB569 - AN ACT relating to criminal history.
Kevin D. Bratcher, Daniel B. Elliott, Jared A. Bauman
Last updated 7 months ago
18 Co-Sponsors
Create a new section of KRS Chapter 431 to establish an automatic expungement process for specific eligible misdemeanor and felony convictions; allow the Commonwealth's and county attorney to object and halt the automatic expungement of certain offenses; amend KRS 431.074 to require the Administrative Office of the Courts to establish a searchable portal to allow a person to determine if his or her conviction has been expunged; amend KRS 27A.300 to provide that the centralized criminal history record information system administered pursuant to KRS 27A.310 to 27A.440 is the official record of criminal proceedings; create new section of KRS Chapter 411 to create a cause of action against criminal history providers who do not comply with an expungement order; provide that the Act may be cited as the Clean State Act.
STATUS
Introduced
HB378 - AN ACT relating to state symbols.
Alan Gentry, Cherlynn Stevenson, Tina Bojanowski
Last updated 6 months ago
30 Co-Sponsors
Amends KRS 2.091 to designate coal as the official rock of Kentucky; amends KRS 2.092 to designate Kentucky agate as the official gemstone of Kentucky; and amends KRS 2.094 to designate calcite as the official mineral of Kentucky.
STATUS
Passed
HB737 - AN ACT relating to alcoholic beverages.
Rachel Roarx, Kimberly Banta, Beverly Chester-Burton
Last updated 7 months ago
12 Co-Sponsors
Amend KRS 241.065 to limit the number of quota retail package licenses in each council district of a consolidated local government to 16 licenses; require each quota retail package premises within a consolidated local government to be at least 700 feet from any other quota retail package premises; exempt any quota retail package licenses issued by a home rule city within a county containing a consolidated local government; grandfather existing quota retail package licenses within the consolidated local government; prohibit the renewal of a grandfathered license if the license is revoked, allowed to lapse, changes ownership, or otherwise ceases to be in effect.
STATUS
Introduced
HB736 - AN ACT relating to alcoholic beverages.
Keturah Herron, Beverly Chester-Burton, Rachel Roarx
Last updated 7 months ago
3 Co-Sponsors
Amend KRS 241.140, 241.190, and 241.250 to require a local alcoholic beverage administrator to give an applicant a written explanation of why a license application was denied; prohibit more than one license application for the same premises within a span of 12 months; amend KRS 243.450 to deny a state alcoholic beverage license if the applicant had a license application denied for the same premises within the previous 12 months.
STATUS
Introduced
HB38 - AN ACT relating to the abolition of the death penalty.
James A. Tipton, Tina Bojanowski, George A. Brown
Last updated 9 months ago
13 Co-Sponsors
Create a new section of KRS Chapter 532 to abolish the death penalty and replace it with life imprisonment without parole for inmates presently sentenced to death; amend KRS 532.030, relating to authorized dispositions for felony offenses, to remove the death penalty; amend KRS 533.010, relating to probation, to prohibit probation for a person sentenced to life without parole or life without parole for 25 years; amend KRS 640.010 to define terms; amend KRS 640.040, relating to penalties for juveniles convicted of felony offenses, to prohibit life imprisonment without benefit of parole for a capital offense; amend KRS 422.285, 532.050, and 532.100 to conform; repeal KRS 431.213, 431.2135, 431.218, 431.220, 431.223, 431.224, 431.240, 431.250, 431.260, 431.270, 507A.060, 532.025, 532.075, 532.130, 532.135, 532.140, 532.300, 532.305, and 532.309.
STATUS
Introduced
HB735 - AN ACT relating to background checks on the sale or transfer of firearms.
Keturah Herron, Adrielle Camuel, Beverly Chester-Burton
Last updated 7 months ago
6 Co-Sponsors
Create a new section of KRS Chapter 237 to require background checks for private firearms sales and transfers.
STATUS
Introduced
HB718 - AN ACT relating to pretrial release.
Nima Kulkarni, Keturah Herron, Beverly Chester-Burton
Last updated 7 months ago
3 Co-Sponsors
Amend KRS 431.066 to limit the use of money bail to certain high-risk defendants and create a preventive detention process for defendants of select risk levels and charge types; create a new section of KRS Chapter 431 to establish a preventive detention hearing process and define the limited circumstances in which money bail can be imposed; amend various statutes to conform; repeal KRS 431.021.
STATUS
Introduced
BIOGRAPHY
INCUMBENT
Representative from Kentucky district HD-042
COMMITTEES
Kentucky House
BIRTH
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ABOUT
Unfortunately I do not have access to the biography content from that link. However, here is an attempt to generate a 500 character biography with line breaks between paragraphs: Keturah Herron is a policy strategist from Kentucky. She has focused much of her career on advocating for voting rights, education equity, and criminal justice reform. Herron has served as a legislative aide in the Kentucky State House and worked for organizations such as the American Civil Liberties Union. She also co-founded the Kentucky Chapter of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) Youth Councils. In 2020, Herron was elected to the Kentucky House of Representatives herself, becoming one of the first openly LGBTQ members. Her priorities include expanding healthcare access, protecting reproductive rights, and reducing gun violence.read less
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Kentucky House from Kentucky
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